This is why you’re losing your marbles

The trouble with idiomatic expressions is that they can seem so straightforwardly to refer to real experience that speakers miss their origins in cultural fictions. Consider, for example, the idiom “that dog won’t hunt”, which first appeared in the United States sometime in the 20th century. When language historians deal with the phrase at all, […]
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Surfers often say that words can never truly express the ineffable moment of hurtling along the face of a breaking wave while balancing on a surfboard, though this does not stop them from trying. In the latest quarterly update to the Oxford English Dictionary (OED update), we have a collection...